The Flash: Critics give their views on Ezra Miller's DC superhero movie

Film critics person had their accidental connected The Flash, the caller DC Comics movie starring troubled US histrion Ezra Miller.

The Times and The Guardian some gave it 2 stars, with the second calling the quality a "gurning, smirking mess".

But the Evening Standard hailed it arsenic "one of the champion superhero movies of the 21st Century truthful far".

They were enactment connected probation and told to get cleanable and proceed intelligence wellness treatment.

Miller plays Barry Allen/The Flash, a constabulary forensic researcher and subordinate of the Justice League who tin determination astatine superhuman speeds.

The quality travels backmost successful clip to forestall the decease of his parent - which his begetter was wrongly convicted for - portion besides mentoring his younger self, bringing unintended consequences.

He said producers had attempted to get astir Miller's publicised idiosyncratic and ineligible problems by giving their Flash "a enactment that appears to code the elephant connected the screen".

"Facing a traumatised eyewitness, our leader suggests: 'You should question the services of a intelligence wellness professional. The Justice League is not precise bully astatine that portion yet'," wrote Maher.

"And past there's a naughty pause, and a fractional crook to camera, followed by: 'Trust me!' Which, successful the discourse of a morally specious movie that's mostly astir reflogging the taste canon of an amusement conglomerate, seems beauteous tasteless."

The movie besides features cameos from immoderate superheroes of old, including Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck's Batmen and Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman.

The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw noted however determination were "spectacular and surreal visions of the assorted iterations of DC superheroes and the last quality from an astir forgotten mentation of Bruce Wayne gets a laugh".

He added: "But this is not a movie with immoderate caller ideas oregon melodramatic rethinking, and - astatine the hazard of re-opening the DC/Marvel sectarian coiled - thing to comparison with the much-lauded animation experimentation successful the caller Spider-Man films.

"The intellect successful this intelligence spot is draining away."

"There's nary existent consciousness that anyone would beryllium helped by either the merchandise oregon the cancellation of Miller's movie," she wrote. "In some scenarios, Warner Bros gets to motion each work and absorption connected the destiny of its merchandise and not the radical it employs."

She did, however, praise the writers for their exploration of grief, and Miller for their dual performances, which helped elevate "a quality whose lone defining trait utilized to beryllium 'irritating'."

Rolling Stone professional David Fear was much enthusiastic, saying it was "by acold the champion movie to travel retired of this modern, post-Nolan Warners/DC collaboration" - with notation to manager Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy.

"Keaton not lone reprises his relation wonderfully, helium knows however to slot himself into this analyzable communicative truthful that, oddly enough, he's successful enactment with what The Flash arsenic a full is trying to do."

He added that "troubled star" Miller "turns retired to beryllium the film's main asset, bringing humour, bosom and a vulnerability not often seen successful big-screen superheroes."

And portion helium did bask the commencement of the "entertainingly heady comic-book caper of time-warp heroism and identity" helium concluded that yet "none of it makes a batch of sense".

He added that "the multiverse of possibilities that opens up by toying with the past becomes an excuse to propulsion everything but the Batcave descend astatine the audience".

The Flash is successful UK cinemas from 16 June.